Re: [PATCH 10/11] irqchip / GICv2 / ACPI: Consolidate GICv2 ACPI related init code

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Jun 10 2015 - 12:30:06 EST


On 21/05/15 15:27, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2015å05æ21æ 04:44, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>> Hi Hanjun,
>>
>> On 05/18/2015 02:59 PM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>> Move GICv2 ACPI related init code in irq-gic.c to irq-gic-acpi.c,
>>> this can make the ACPI related GIC init code slef-contained.
>>>
>>> Introduce set_acpi_core_irqdomain() to set acpi_irqdomain then
>>> it will be no need to make gic_data[] as a global value, and
>>> it will save the confilcts with GICv3's gic_data in the later
>>> patch.
>>>
>>> acpi_gic_parse_distributor() have the same function as
>>> gic_acpi_parse_madt_distributor() to get the GIC distributor
>>> physical base address, so just remove the duplicate one, and
>>> only get the GIC version when it is unknown.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-acpi.c | 95
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 103
>>> +----------------------------------
>>> include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-acpi.h | 5 ++
>>> 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-acpi.c
>>> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-acpi.c
>>> index 1388d9e..8463e48 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-acpi.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-acpi.c
>>> @@ -13,12 +13,16 @@
>>>
>>> #include <linux/acpi.h>
>>> #include <linux/init.h>
>>> +#include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h>
>>> #include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-acpi.h>
>>> #include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h>
>>
>> arm-gic.h and arm-gic-v3.h describe register map for respective drivers
>> and should be used separately within parent driver only.
>
> Seems that there is no duplicate macros in that two head
> file, but yes, it will confuse people.
>
> Consolidating all ACPI GIC code is an improvement to make
> ACPI related code self-contained, but also have some drawbacks,
>
> Marc, what do you think?

What I think is "Over my dead body".

These include files are private to the respective interrupt controller
code, and the only reason they are in linux/irqchip is because the
corresponding KVM support code uses them too.

Thanks,

M.
--
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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